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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Cii/1 Hazard play, alearum ludus.

1715 Pill to purge State-melancholy 50 A Gamester, at a Hazard-Bet, Would think 't a Bubble-Case, When Main is thrown, and Stake is set, To lose it to Deux-Ace.

1719 C. Johnson Masquerade iii. i. 39 Enter one Gamester from the Hazard-Table.

a1741 C. Fiennes Through Eng. on Side Saddle (1888) 301 There are two hazard boards.

1759 H. Walpole Let. 26 Apr. in Corr. with G. Montagu (1941) I. 232 He went onto the hazard-room.

a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) i. 26 The waiter at Almack's has just brought him home his macaroni dress for the hazard-table.

1829 H. B. Henderson Bengalee 109 Salary, wasted at keen Hazard-bets.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 65 His ill luck at the hazard table was such that his estates were daily becoming more and more encumbered.

1893 Cent. Mag. Dec. 263/2 Out-betting and out-brawling him at the races and the hazard clubs.

1977 D. Carroll Playboy's Illustr. Treasury Gambling iii. 114 Observe: the rules for hazard play are simple, simpler by far than craps.

1990 P. M. Hembry Eng. Spa vi. 84 Visitors took tea and chocolate in the coffee-houses and gambled at the lottery or hazard board in two rooms.

2013 D. Gaston Reputation for Notoriety vi. 102 The crowd around the hazard table grew, most betting with her.